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No person shall visit, attend or resort to any office, house, room, tenement or other place where any lottery is contrived, prepared, set up, proposed, drawn or conducted or where lottery tickets are sold, offered for sale, given away, furnished or transferred.
A similar ordinance was held constitutional as a reasonable exercise of the police power.
People v. Aguinaldo, CR A 2770.
No person shall possess, exhibit or expose to view, when two or more other persons are present, any part of any faro box, any pique blocks or pique cards, any roulette, fan tan or craps equipment or any gambling layout whatever in any barred or barricaded house or room, or in any place built or protected in such a manner as to make it difficult of access or ingress to police officers.
No person shall resort to, attend or be in any house, room or other place where there is any gambling device, equipment or paraphernalia, which place is barred, barricaded, built or protected in such a manner as to make ingress or access difficult to police officers.
A substantially similar ordinance was held not in violation of any constitutional privileges nor unreasonable or oppressive because of infringement upon personal rights. “Barred and Barricaded” do not include ordinary private residences or rooms where doors are locked or bolted in the ordinary method.
Matter of Ah Chung, 136 Cal. 678 CR A 3440.
(Added by Ord. No. 111,074, Eff. 5/3/58).
It shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to visit, frequent, or be present at or within any house, room, apartment, stand or place used in whole or in part as a gambling house, or any place where any game is played, conducted, dealt or carried on with cards, dice, or other device for money, checks, chips, credit, pennants, cigars, candy, merchandise or other valuable thing, or representative of value; provided, however, this ordinance shall not apply to any police officer while in the exercise of their duties as such officer, nor to any person whose presence in any such place is necessary in the course of the person’s lawful business.
(Added by Ord. No. 138,828, Eff. 8/10/69.)
(a) Gambling House Defined: Gambling house means any building, house, room, or other structure used in whole or in part for conducting illegal gambling.
(b) Gambling House Prohibited. No person shall keep, conduct or maintain any gambling house.
(c) Permitting Use as Gambling House. No person shall knowingly allow or permit any building, house, room or other structure owned or occupied by the person or under the person’s charge or control to be used as a gambling house.
(d) Violations Are Misdemeanors and Public Nuisances. Every person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and all gambling houses are declared to constitute a public nuisance.
(e) Nuisances May Be Abated. Any public nuisance maintained in violation of this section may be enjoined, prevented or abated as provided by law.
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